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The Sword of Manjushri: Developing Stainless Wisdom (Part 4)

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In the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, the Buddha identified the wisdom realizing emptiness as the means to cut through the ignorance that keeps us bound in cyclic existence and stuck in our unenlightened state. While such stainless wisdom is said to be somewhat difficult to cultivate, masters of the Indian and Tibetan Madhyamika tradition, such as Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, and Lama Tsongkhapa, have left us a treasure of insightful texts and commentaries to aid us in this process. In this course, we will focus on the various techniques for contemplating the wisdom of emptiness, utilizing teachings from a number of these great Madhyamika masters of the past as well as accomplished contemporary practitioners. Taught by Gen Don Handrick Materials: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/stfkxtrums... ...more
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Nevertheless, there is a difference between a snake wrongly imputed to a rope and a snake rightly imputed to a proper basis of designation because the latter can perform the function of a

14:55

Therefore, when Prasangikas cite the example of a rope-snake, it illustrates only the mode of imputation; the purport of the example is not that the existence of phenomena is the same as the existence of a rope-snake.

15:33

A rope-snake does not exist and cannot perform the functions of a snake whereas things do exist and create effects within the context of being ultimately unfindable nominalities.

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The Sword of Manjushri: Developing Stainless Wisdom (Part 4)
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2020Nov 26
In the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, the Buddha identified the wisdom realizing emptiness as the means to cut through the ignorance that keeps us bound in cyclic existence and stuck in our unenlightened state. While such stainless wisdom is said to be somewhat difficult to cultivate, masters of the Indian and Tibetan Madhyamika tradition, such as Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, and Lama Tsongkhapa, have left us a treasure of insightful texts and commentaries to aid us in this process. In this course, we will focus on the various techniques for contemplating the wisdom of emptiness, utilizing teachings from a number of these great Madhyamika masters of the past as well as accomplished contemporary practitioners. Taught by Gen Don Handrick Materials: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/stfkxtrums...

Nevertheless, there is a difference between a snake wrongly imputed to a rope and a snake rightly imputed to a proper basis of designation because the latter can perform the function of a

14:55

Therefore, when Prasangikas cite the example of a rope-snake, it illustrates only the mode of imputation; the purport of the example is not that the existence of phenomena is the same as the existence of a rope-snake.

15:33

A rope-snake does not exist and cannot perform the functions of a snake whereas things do exist and create effects within the context of being ultimately unfindable nominalities.

16:10

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